The announcement of winners and presentation of awards for our Photographer of the Year Competition (POTY) 2019 took place on Monday 27th May 2019.

For the competition, each entrant submitted 4 mono prints and 4 colour prints, which were presented for judging as a panel and scored individually over four grades, with Grade 4 being the most advanced.

Judging of the images took place at the Mallow GAA complex on Sunday 26th May 2019. We were extremely privileged to have three top class judges for the competition: Judy Boyle FIPF FRPS EFIAP/Gold, Pauric McGroder FIPF ARPS AIPPA and Brian Hopper FIPF ARPs EFIAP/d1.

Judy, Pauric and Brian did a fantastic job of judging the twenty-three entries, not only scoring each image, but also providing valuable constructive feedback on the images and panels. It was hugely appreciated by all the entrants to have such quality feedback from these highly qualified and respected photographers. Huge thanks to Judy, Pauric and Brian for their contribution.

A special thanks to Viv Buckley and Lisa Egan, our Competition Secretary and Asst. Competition Secretary, for all the administration, preparation and organisation of the competition and judging, which as always with Viv and Lisa, went off like clockwork. Many thanks also to our scorekeepers Jim McSweeney, Paul Tips and Neil O’Mullane and to Coleman Culhane, Pat Sheehan and Kieran Cogan who managed the prints during the judging and to Ger Buckley for all the help in setting up the room for judging.

The awards were presented by our new Chairman, Kieran Cogan, and our outgoing Chairman, Jim McSweeney..

The Overall Photographer of the Year 2019 was awarded to Janusz Trzesicki LIPF, who also took home awards for Best Overall Colour Panel, Best Colour Panel Grade 4, 1st Place Grade 4 POTY, 1st Place Grade 4 Colour Panel and 2nd Place Grade 4 Mono Panel. This is the third year in a row that Janusz has won the Overall Photographer of the Year award…an incredible achievement, especially when one considers the the very high level of talent in the club. Congratulations Janusz and well deserved.

The full competition results are as follows:

Overall Photographer of the Year 2019:
1st: Janusz Trzesicki LIPF
2nd: Vivien BUckley AIPF AFIAP
3rd: Pat O’Meara LIPF

Overall Best Mono Panel: Vivien Buckley AIPF AFIAP

Overall Best Colour Panel: Janusz Trzesicki LIPF

Grade 4 Photographer of the Year:
1st: Janusz Trzesicki LIPF
2nd: Vivien BUckley AIPF AFIAP
3rd: Jim Mc Sweeney LIPF

Grade 4 Mono Panel:
1st: Vivien BUckley AIPF AFIAP
2nd: Janusz Trzesicki LIPF
3rd: Paul Tips LIPF

Grade 4 Colour Panel:
1st: Janusz Trzesicki LIPF
2nd: Jim Mc Sweeney LIPF
3rd: Vincent Higgins.

Grade 4 Best Image: Vivien Buckley AIPF AFIAP.

Grade 3 Photographer of the Year:
1st: Pat O’Meara LIPF
2nd: Julia Trzesicka LIPF
3rd: Lisa Egan

Grade 3 Mono Panel:
1st: Julia Trzesicka LIPF
2nd: Pat O’Meara LIPF
3rd: Lisa Egan.

Grade 3 Colour Panel:
1st: Pat O’Meara LIPF
2nd: Julia Trzesicka LIPF
3rd: Lisa Egan.

Grade 3 Best Image: Julia Trzesicka LIPF

Grade 2 Photographer of the Year:
1st: Eileen Cashman
2nd: Mary O’Sullivan
3rd: Marie Kiely

Grade 2 Mono Panel:
1st: Eileen Cashman
2nd: Mary O’Sullivan
3rd: Marie Kiely

Grade 2 Colour Panel:
1st: Eileen Cashman
2nd: Mary O’Sullivan
3rd: Marie Kiely

Grade 2 Best Image: Mary O’Sullivan

Grade 1 Photographer of the Year:
1st: Phillip Kerins
2nd: Fred Ward
3rd: Séamus Myers

Grade 1 Mono Panel:
1st: Phillip Kerins
2nd: Fred Ward
3rd: Kieran Mangan

Grade 1 Colour Panel:
1st: Phillip Kerins
2nd: Séamus Myers
3rd: Fred Ward

Grade 1 Best Image: Phillip Kerins

Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks and better luck next time to all the other entrants .

The following images include shots of the happy winners and the judging team, followed by the Overall POTY winners’ panels and the highest scoring images from the other winners and the remaining entrants. Please enjoy.